Rascal Flatts, Pokey LaFarge release new sounds
Friday, May 19, 2017 – Country pop trio Rascal Flatts is out with "Back to Us" today. The band's 10th studio album was led by the single "Yours If You Want It." Lauren Alaina sings with the trio's "Are You Happy Now." The release comes in a regular 10-song version and a 13-song deluxe recording. The band self-produced except for one song, "Hands Talk," on the deluxe version.
Pokey LaFarge is back with his eighth album since 2006 "Manic Revelations." Recorded in LaFarge's hometown of St. Louis, the disc contains 10 originals and was produced by the Southside Collective-LaFarge, Joey Glynn (bass), Ryan Koenig (harmonica, guitjo, electric guitar), Adam Hoskins (electric guitar), Matt Meyer (drums, percussion), Luc Klein (trumpet, euphonium, piano, glockenspiel), Alec Spiegelman (saxophone, piano, tubax, organ, clarinet, flute), David Beeman (tambourine, stylophone, guitar, organ)-along with additional production by Tony Hoffer. LaFarge merges roots and vaudeville-type sounds.
More news for Pokey LaFarge
- 02/13/24: LaFarge lines up "Rumba Country"
- 09/09/21: LaFarge delays album one month, cites manufacturing issues
- 08/17/21: LaFarge blossoms with new set
- 04/09/20: Anderson, Maddie & Tae, LaFarge release new CDs
- 01/22/20: LaFarge announces new album on new label
- 07/17/13: Pokey debuts on Dave
- 06/28/13: Lafarge, McPherson record Oklahoma benefit single
CD reviews for Pokey LaFarge
A retro feel exists on Pokey LaFarge's "In the Blossom of Their Shade" with its pleasing mix of folk, blues, jazz and country. Composed largely while LaFarge was isolated in Austin when the pandemic hit, the Illinois native endeavored to convey a mostly positive outlook. This is best exemplified in the bluesy "Fine To Me", reminiscent of Tony Joe White's "Polk Salad Annie" and Dale Hawkins' "Suzie Q" in which LaFarge credits his mate with ...
Pokey La Farge is best described as a musical archivist in every sense of the term. He and his band were described by one source as "artfully dodgy ambassadors for old-time music, presenting and representing the glories of hot swing, early jazz and ragtime blues" who have "made riverboat chic cool again," and indeed, they live up to that description. They recreate the kind of aural imagery that takes their listeners back in time to an earlier era of decades past when ...
A good many musical artists are looking for a hot new trend to champion, but Pokey LaFarge's only interest from the beginning of his career has been to bring a fresh perspective to folk, blues and soul with a swingy, jazzy, poppy undercurrent. Over the past decade and a half, LaFarge's sound and the
band that helps him create it has evolved at a pace that reinforces the childhood nickname that he has adopted as his stage persona. That shouldn't be construed as a criticism; LaFarge ...
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